If the DRM is still in place when Steam dies you'll have nothing to play in 15 years….
Unless of course there's an underground army of devoted nerds ready to create ways to archive and play the old games like there is for pretty much every video game every made.
90% if not all games remove the drm after a while because it costs them money to keep to a point where it's no longer an option. check old games 99% chance probably you will find a DRM free copy in fitgirl or whatever popular site on Reddit these days.
and as you said, plenty of people will people will create ways.
In fact, I believe Steam kind of hinted, or at least I read somewhere a long time ago that if they went down, the games would be Steam DRM-free.
If Switch 2 never got hacked, you are doomed.
with that being said. this is not a reason not to buy the system. it's not like we buy it to hack it. i am interested in one and probably day one because of Mario Kart. but if I don't get one, I'll pull every stop to buy it. i am not ok with the policy and anti-consumer shit they are doing.
between 90$ a game just so they can give me a digital encrypted code on that piece of plastic and charge me 10$ over an 80$ game is just stupid crazy.
ill most probably just buy the games that has the full game on disc. or wait for it used. I'll not give Nintendo my money for a physical game that has no game. I don't support this practice with Xbox or PlayStation games either.
but at least with xbox and playstation they are not charging 10 fucking $ ( 15% Canadian over digital ). and still wouldnt support it.
if i am buying physical games, it's for preservation or nostalgia of a game I love so much and I want to keep in my collection. to this day I have games like Metal Gear Solid 4 on PS3 limited edition, God of War 3 remastered on PS4, shadow of C on PS4, etc.